Correlação espacial entre a dengue e o saneamento na cidade do Recife

Abstract

The Dengue is an urban and tropical arbovirose transmitted by a domestic, anthropophilic and diurnal hematophageal activity mosquito, the Aedes aegypti, which uses water as a medium for reproduction. The objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the density of Dengue cases occurring in the Recife city between January 2013 and December 2016 and the following social and environmental variables: coverage indices of water supply and sewage networks, monthly percentage of water supply service operation days, weekly frequency of municipal solid waste collection, demographic density, monthly nominal household income and literacy rate of the 10 years and over population. The methodology used was based on collection, treatment and processing of data through inferential statistics and geoprocessing techniques. At the end of this study, it was concluded that the density of Dengue cases increases with the increase in demographic density, with a decrease in the nominal monthly household income and with a decrease in the quality of sanitary sewage and garbage collection services. Also was observed that the most affected neighborhoods were formed largely by settlements of low socioeconomic status.